Reflection

While writing this paper I learned a lot about myself as a writer and also as an individual in my community. It has helped me to realize that I really need to start putting myself out there more and get involved in the things that are going on around me in my community. Voting is now something that is a priority to me because I am old enough to voice my opinion. Also this paper has helped me to realize that there is more that I can do for myself and my community just by helping out and participating. Throughout this writing I started it off slow just kind of introducing the topic at hand then I dug deeper by questioning the reader and by adding my own examples as well as examples for texts that we have read in class. I think that at the beginning of this class I was not as motivated and was not as interested in writing as I am now. I was also not as interested in the problems that were going on around me. I used to just sit back and watch as things happened but now I want to start getting involved. This class and this paper have helped me realize so many things about myself that I really don’t think I would have seen otherwise.